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I need to turn 107 tiny paragraphs (longest is 27 characters) into one column of a table, and another 107 tiny paragraphs into a second column of the same table.
If it matters, they were error codes and matching error names snatched from a header file. I grabbed them as columns, using Notepad ...

Ah.

I knew there was a reason I preferred the Menu bar...

In Content Explorer, I always have "Show Files" set.... so, two columns. And then I stretch the Flare VM window between two screens, with the split between the Content file tree on the left screen, and the file list on the right.
Guess ...

Export a topic as Word doc.

Our documentation server does not have Word on it. Just Flare, a couple of text editors and some search tools.

A co-worker needed to update an old Word document, and wanted to include a table that we have in our current Flare projects.

"How to enable the import ...

Whoops! Didn't mean to slight "dorcutt". Our posts must have crossed in the mail.

Thank you.



PS: EXCEPT when I embarrass myself, I just love the instant response on this forum.

DUH!

Never mind.

I did this years ago, and forgot.

Just create a blank snippet and THEN put the table in.

DUH!

Sorry to bother everyone.

We have a table of contact info for our support offices, worldwide. We want it in all our customer-facing docs, identically, and updated across the board when we have reason to add an office, remove an office, change a phone number, etc.

Unless I've missed something, I can't make a variable of an ...

Hmm. When you said ",,, for the PDF target, be sure not to use TOC depth ..." was that meant specifically in my situation, or is that for ToCs going to PDF in general?

If a command-line tool has command sets that are nested two-and-three levels deep (a hierarchy), should a Command Reference Guide's table of contents mimic that hierarchy, or should the ToC be flattened to a single layer alphabetical list, with no signposts? I'm being told that "flat like a ...

I'll do the text-editor thing. It'll be the most straightforward way to get to the next problem.


Badump-bump-tssshhh!


Anyway, just for info, the original file was source, and was probably created in very early Flare... if not in RH before I bought into Flare at version 1-dot-something, and then ...

So, how SHOULD I be doing this?

Flare 10.2.2 on Windows 7.

A page with a big-ish table on it went missing from the docs, a few releases back, and somebody noticed.

Easy, sez I. I'll just go find it in the last project where it still existed, copy the file into my current project, open the ...

All,

The FAQ says this:

How many computers can I install Flare, Mimic, Analyzer and MadCap Lingo?

You may install a second copy of the software on either a portable computer or a home computer for your exclusive use only, provided that: (A) the second copy of the software on the portable or home ...

Yeah... it doesn't help with between-version compatibility... at least not directly. Just sayin' there are reasons, in general, to keep moving forward with the product versions, that don't necessarily have to do with newer, fancier features.

And, in a distributed environment, where groups report ...

Hmm.

In the past, I've mostly upgraded within a month or two of a new whole-integer release... as soon as the flurry dies down and either there aren't any deal-killers or they've released the first dot-increment release to patch the opening-day glitches. So, maybe I've just never noticed MadCap ...

All,

Writers at this location use Flare 10, mostly because we have Bronze maintenance and new versions are included... and we don't want to get behind the versions that are actively supported with fixes.
In other words, we don't intentionally use any newer features/functionality of Flare that were ...

I'm with Ramon on most (all?) of what he said.
I'd especially like to "me too" the bit about reassurance.

Sometimes, I'm the guy who goes to the Help ('cuz there's no other documentation) to find out what I'm GOING to be doing (maybe even why).
Other times, I'm the guy looking for help to find ...

<rant>

I'm running Flare 9.1.2 on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.

I don't use the Review tab. Neither does the other writer. He's ticked about this, too.
Some time around 9.1, "Track Changes" started asserting itself, and putting a check beside "Show Changes".

I have lost literally days because ...

Isn't it nice how they preserve things like this, release after release after release....

Some day, I'd like to see MadCap publish their secret survey results that show the majority of us answered:

- Prefer to see new fluff features in each release

versus

- Prefer to see bugs fixed and code ...

I've been avoiding ever making two ToC entries that point to the same topic file within a project, because somebody told me, years ago, that this defeats a navigation feature in Flare. Does anyone remember what that was, and why? And is it still true?

Or should I be able to have a topic pointed ...

I reproduce the output of a few "show" commands (showinfo, showpolicies, etc.) in several places throughout my customer docs, as appropriate to the task the customer is performing, or the background info they are perusing.
I might be discussing the output in general terms, or I might be discussing ...

OK, that's great (thanks) for part of the problem... old, stray, un-tethered images (or snippets).

But the other part of the problem is to know, when an old image might still be used in a project somewhere... WHERE is it still used? Maybe it should be refreshed? Maybe the topic is as outdated as ...

Flare 9 on Windows 7.

Why is it that I can select a topic file in Content Explorer, ask "View Links", and get a Link Viewer pane that tells me of other topics that link into the selected file, and of other topics, image files, and snippet files to which the current topic links....... yet if I want ...

I have a good-sized ToC (when expanded, it takes a bit more than a minute to scroll), that my co-tech-writer and I wish to update/rearrange.

So, we'd like to discuss it.

We'd like to print it out. Perhaps put it in chunks on a big white-board, and play around with different layout and placement ...

I had started to use Concepts and Related Topics (no Relationship tables, yet), but NOT for those old topics.... because I knew I was getting rid of them.

Just another in a long line of little Flare mysteries.

Like many of those, it doesn't stop me from working - just slows me down, when I have ...

When Flare introduced "View Links", I thought that links were simply part of topic files, and that "View Links" would simply run through the project and find any topics or graphics or other items that named the selected page in a link.

BUT...
It is my practice to deprecate pages/topics.
When a ...

Unfortunately, most of them are not built that way. They are contained in square brackets and they usually don't just smoothly continue a sentence. Rather they are often several complete sentences, and often a graphic or screen-cap as well. . . and then the sentence or action continues after the ...